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A commoner is someone who is not a member of the nobility — not a king, queen, prince, duke, and so on. In British news it often means “an ordinary person, not royalty,” so when a prince marries a commoner the papers mean someone from outside the royal family, even if that person is rich or famous.
A commoner is someone who is not a member of the nobility commoner 指的是不屬於貴族階層的人 — not a king, queen, prince, duke, and so on不是國王、皇后、王子、公爵之類的人。In British news在英國新聞裡 it often means它常常指的是 "an ordinary person, not royalty,"「一般人，不是皇室成員」 so when a prince marries a commoner所以當一位王子娶了一位 commoner the papers mean someone from outside the royal family報紙的意思是這個人不是皇室出身, even if that person is rich or famous就算這個人很有錢或很有名也一樣。
It is not an insult by itself, though older class talk could make it sound lower. At Oxford and Cambridge it can also mean a student who is not on a special scholarship, but that is campus talk.
It is not an insult by itself這個字本身不算是罵人, though older class talk could make it sound lower不過以前談階級時可能會讓它聽起來低人一等。At Oxford and Cambridge在牛津和劍橋 it can also mean a student who is not on a special scholarship它也可以指沒有拿到特別獎學金的學生, but that is campus talk不過這是校園裡的用法。
And though actually, commoner is also just the comparative of the adjective common (“this cold is commoner in winter”) — same spelling, different job in the sentence.
And though actually而且其實, commoner is also just the comparative of the adjective common commoner 也可以只是形容詞 common 的比較級 ("this cold is commoner in winter")（像「this cold is commoner in winter」這樣）— same spelling, different job in the sentence拼法一樣，在句子裡的角色卻不同。
組成From common + -er (a person who is…). Common comes from Latin communis (shared by all) through French. The “more common” sense uses the same pieces, but -er there is the comparative ending, not “a person.”
原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
commonernoun詞源 2/ˈkɒm.ə.nə(ɹ)/
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A member of the common people who holds no title or rank.
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Someone who is not of noble rank.
- All below them [the peers], even their children, were commoners, and in the eye of the law equal to each other.
- It was revealed on Friday that Mountbatten Windsor is in line to receive a large one-off payment and an annual stipend designed to prevent him overspending in his new life as a commoner after a back-and-forth about where he would go after leaving Royal Lodge.
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historicalSomeone who is not of noble rank.
- I am now received in, and made a Member of this Honorable Houſe of Commons, though it be a thing ſtrange, and not common in England, for an Earl and a member of the LORDS Houſe to be made a Commoner, or removed from the upper end of the to the Lower end of the Table.
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historicalSomeone who is not of noble rank.
- [I]f he be a Commoner of ſuch as is capable of being in the Houſe of Commons, at leaſt, unleſſe some Law have diſabled him.
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obsoleteA student who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges.
- There are to this day fellow-commoners at Queens, and surely such a distinguished commoner as Fuller would have been allowed to remain on that foundation, in which he had spent seven years, in this new capacity. The expense would have been about the same, and the only way in which I can account for his migration is either pique at being passed over, or the friendship of so famed a theologian as Dr. Ward.
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Someone who has a right over another's land. They hold common rights because of residence or land ownership in a particular manor, especially rights on common land. eg: centuries-old grazing rights
- Much good land might be gained from forests […] and from other commonable places, so as always there be a due care taken that the poor commoners have no injury.
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obsoleteOne sharing with another in anything.
- From the Counsell he was carried home to the Prison, and there for many days kept with bread and water, so that had the proudest Anchorite, pretending to the highest abstinence, been Commoner with him, it would have tried his swiftest Devotion to keepe pace with him.
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obsoleteA prostitute.
- O behold this ring / Whose high respect and rich validity / Did lack a parallel; yet for all that / He gave it to a commoner o'th' camp, / If I be one.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
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card-gamesgamesa rankless or average player in Tycoon; not the tycoon, rich, poor, or beggar.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。